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Artist Unknown 作者不詳 KOSUZURIBAKO (SMALL WRITING BOX) WITH DESIGN OF POEM CARD AND CHRYSANTHEMUMS 短冊菊図蒔絵小硯箱 Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), second half of the nineteenth century (6) image 1
Artist Unknown 作者不詳 KOSUZURIBAKO (SMALL WRITING BOX) WITH DESIGN OF POEM CARD AND CHRYSANTHEMUMS 短冊菊図蒔絵小硯箱 Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), second half of the nineteenth century (6) image 2
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Artist Unknown 作者不詳 KOSUZURIBAKO (SMALL WRITING BOX) WITH DESIGN OF POEM CARD AND CHRYSANTHEMUMS 短冊菊図蒔絵小硯箱
Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), second half of the nineteenth century

The Misumi Collection of Important Works of Lacquer Art and Paintings: Part I
5 November 2014, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Artist Unknown 作者不詳 KOSUZURIBAKO (SMALL WRITING BOX) WITH DESIGN OF POEM CARD AND CHRYSANTHEMUMS 短冊菊図蒔絵小硯箱

Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), second half of the nineteenth century
Of tall rectangular shape with flush-fitting lid, the wood body lacquered in a variety of patterns and techniques, the exterior with a roiro-nuri ground and a design of tanzaku (poem cards) and sprays of chrysanthemum in gold, silver, and coloured takamaki-e and hiramaki-e, with details in gold and silver kirigane and shell, the underside gold fundame, the interior of the box and lid with a repeating pattern of crane roundels, stylized chrysanthemums, and tendrils in gold and aokin takamaki-e and hiramaki-e on a fine gold nashiji ground, the writing implements consisting of a stone suzuri (ink stone) with a gold fundame rim, a silver suiteki (water dropper) with a two-stage mount, chiselled in the form of a chrysanthemum with a gold seed head, the suzuri and suiteki both mounted in a plain wood frame; with a silk ribbon passing through the sides of the box
Unsigned
2.5 × 6 × 21.2 cm (1 × 2 3/8 × 8 3/8 in.)
With lacquered wooden storage box with title slip
Provenance: Mitsui Family
三井家旧藏
(6).

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This combination of motifs is associated with the Chrysanthemum Festival, celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month.

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